The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-14
Maryland Aaa.rs.

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Hagerstown has case Of smallpox.
There is to be bicycle meet at Hagers
town on June 10.
There is to be a May ball at Reisterstowl
next Tuesday night.
A boat club has been organized at Annapo
lis, with DIR. Grafton Munroe. president.
The deaths in Baltimore last week mum
bered 123 and the births 252. good re
cord.
Heavy rains caused freshets in Charlie,
county, drowning cattle and washing corn
fields.
Rev. George Diehl, d. D., has been pastor
of the Lutheran church at Frederick for thirty
six years.
Henry K Tice, one of Hagerstown's lead.
ing citizens, died on Tuesday evening, in his
10th year.
The levy in Howard for county purposes
this year is 81 cents on the 500, reduction
of four cents. Well done, Howard.
Collector Roberts reports the internal rev.
enue collections in his district in April were
S345, 523 70against S279, 6SS. 81 in April, 1886.
Annapolis is getting into good financial
condition as a corporation. The debt in round
numbers is about 81, 900 and the assets $57, )
900.
The tax rate for county purposes land
school taxi in Anne Arundel county for 1887
is $1.O0 on The 500, reduction of seven
| cents.
Major f. W. Coleman, former proprietor
of the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, has leased
the Gettysburg Springs, PAL Hotel for
term of years.
Heavy rains caused break in the Chesa-
peake 4 Ohio Canal on Monday, at Little
Monocacy, about eighty feet long, and fifteen
feet below the ordinary bottom of the canal.
Chas. t. Kline and Richard 7. Cramer,
members of the Frederick Rifles, have been
tried and convicted by court martial of re-
fusal to attend drills, &C., without reasona-
Bile excuse.
For violation of the local option law Ben
iamin Hart and Samuel j. Carey have been
fined $50 each and sent to the House of Cor
rection for three months by the Dorchester
Circuit Court.
The grand Jury of Dorchester county has
indicted John E. Davis, of Cambridge, for
circulating libelous publication, over the
| signature of Richard l.. Corkran, against his
son-in-law, Charles c. Dali.
Samuel G. Veirs, young farmer living
near Rockville, Montgomery county, was
seized with vertigo, to which he was subject,
while in his dairy on Monday morning, and
fell. with his head in the water. He was dead
when discovered.
Sister Mariana Flynn, for number fyears
past treasurer of Mount st. Joseph's, at EN-
mitsburg, has been appointed Mother Superior
of that institution in place of Mother Euphe-
mia, lately deceased. Sister Angelina Davis
has been made treasurer.
While at breakfast on Wednesday morning,
on the farm of George Mannion, in the lower
part of Cecil county, Thomas johnson and
| George Little, both colored, quarreled.
johnson stabbed Little with butcher knife
which he was using at breakfast.
The bicycle riders expect to have large
meeting in Baltimore in June next, with a
lantern parade of about 400 wheelmen. Clubs
are expected from Washington, ID. c., Hag-
erstown, Frederick, Westminster, York, Pa.
Wilmington, Del, and Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, of Rohrersville, Wash
ington county, was taken to bellevue Asylum,
at Hagerstown last Friday, for treatment.
The same night she made rope of her apron
and strangled herself. She was 20 years of
age, and had previously attempted suicide.
Ellsworth Gray, about % years of age, en-
Moved on the farm of Samuel jenkins, near
| Columbia, Howard county, was seized with
an epileptc fit last Saturday, and in falling
one of his hands was thrust into a hot stove.
| No one was near to relieve him and the flesh
was literally roasted almost to the elbow.
The Maryland Chassis of the Reformed
| Church in the United States will convene in
annual session in the Glade Reformed Church,
near Walkersville, Frederick county, on Fri
day evening, May 10th, at u o'clock. The
opening sermon will be preached by the re-
firing President, Rev. G. Clever, of Balti-
more.
The annual Ministerial Institute of the
| MARYLAND Conference of the United Brethren
| Church was opened at Walkersville Tuesday
night. There were number of ministers and
large congregation present. Addresses
were delivered by Revs. W. l.. Martin. and
| c. M. Holt. The sessions on Wednesday
were devoted chiefly to the discussion of sub
jects pertaining to church work
L The military parade in Baltimore on Tues
day afternoon in honor of the twentieth an
niversary of the Fifth Maryland Regiment was
one of the most brilliant of its kind that has
ever taken place in that city. Nearly all the
military companies in the state took part
| in the parade. Gen. Stewart Brown and staff
and part of the Governors Staff, among the
latter being Brigadier General I. Herbert
| Shriver, headed the line.
/ Mrs. Lille Ritter was shot and instantly
killed about halfpast seven o'clock on Tues
| day morning by her husband, Vim. ii. Ritter,
at the brickyards of S. W. Ritter, situated on
| Humphreys creek, an estuary of Bear creek,
| in the twelfth district of Baltimore county,
| fourteen miles from the city. Both had been
drinking, and the exact circumstances OF the
shooting were not brought out at the coroner s
inquest. aAH
Prof. J. A. Chambliss. of the chair of Eng
lish Literature and Latin in the Maryland
Agricultural College, has taken three ffths of
the prize offered by Mr.. Geo. W. Pierce, OF
Boston, for the best translation of the famous
old Latin hymn, Dies Irde. The remaining
two-fifths was awarded to Miss Irene Sargent,
of Boston. The committee ofaward was com
posed of professo.s in Boston College and two
members of the Boston Advertisers editorial
staff. There were many competitors.
Scott Pearce was arrested on Monday night
at half past nine o'clock by Deputy Sheriff
| Risteau, of Baltimore county, and locked up
in the Towson jail on the charge of having
murdered Edward Bond, colored, on Satur-
day last, at Corbett Station, on the Northern
| Central Railroad. The two men had been
| digging well, when rain drove them into a
blacksmith shop. When there Pearce offered to
box anybody in the shop, and Bond accepted.
From boxing the men got to wrestling, and
4 Pearce, losing his temper struck Bond on the
/ head and face with hammer, while having
Bonds head in chancery. The men separated
and then quarreled. Being requested to leave
the shop, they went to barn near by and
began fighting. They we're separated by a
man who followed them, who told Bond to
leave Bond started off on a run, and Pearce
| sfler him. Bond fell and Pearee coming up
with him, plunged q knife into him near the
heart, inaicting wound from which he died
In twenty minnles,
The Danville. Va. Daily Register published q
double sheet the ard inst, setting forth the ad-
va IMAGES of that city for manu acturing. business